New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-28
SUPPLEMENT.
PAGES 8 TO f2.
KATKOFF THE SELFSEEKER
sKETCHED BY IVAN TURGCENEfF AM
PRINCE KRAPoTKIN.

soil. aAs long as thou doest good unto thysef
ne, will nraise thee" How NJ katkoif mas been
prated about aud lauded. Simply because 30 iar rs
donr roo, unto himself and his offspring went he
WAS successful humSug. l knew Turguened ana
what he thought OF Kaikofl's patriotism. II that
WINTER had lived the Editor oil The Gazette Of
Moscow would have gone down to the grave IN
bonored by Republican France In Turs1enehs
lifetime katko1 never sought TO make up 10 the
French and 10 persuade them that In his favor lay
their future safety from German inyasiol' mat
great writer would have been Carried away by
ponest indignation to show him ur. He positively
ioathed tho moral baseness and inpudence OF this
ayort e of Alexander Ill NJ. Rochefort only snm'
narses tho long and scathiag letter In which
Prince Krapotkin demonstrates with the French
Renubiicaus tor regarding Katdoh either rs
aRussian patriot" or a sympathzer with Rcpueli'
.an France OF anything else that is good. but
ran guess from what Lavrof aud other exiied
Russians say OF Katkof what truths are contained
nbout him in the KrapotkiD letter. with which I" rs
democrat aud Socialist" NJ Rochefort agrees, but
which as Frenchman he hegs not 10 indorsc
Tho Mandatory story of Katkoe's lite has been
told adj nauseam Turguenef said Of hin TO me:
ale has Sccoule an Orthodox Christian but never
theless remained Jew" By this he meant that he
subord n ated every consideration to tho business
of making money and that he had genius for get
ting on at the cost of the country IN which he hveu
The illustrious Russian novelist saw many traits
in common between Katkon and Lord Beaconsteld
But Lord Beaconsfeld's lines were cast in coun
try where there was wholesome pnblic opinion
and less to be got out of the Crow than out OF an
autocra.ic Gear. The Saint of the Primrose League
was not ashamed of his race, although he had
gone into the Anglican Episcopal fold and become
one of its political guardians But katkoh did not
own to being of Semitic race. He was, however
great protector of the Jews though no did not al
ways venture to be an ostensible one, aud they In
return for the many services he rendered them
caused prayers since his death TO be said for his
soul in tbeir syhagogucs at Moscow and St Peters
burg Nobody understood better bow to get mp
blaze of excitement which would be sure to aGitate
the stock exchanges of the world. Observe tha5
Lesser Abramoff and Katkof made England ana
Russia fare ND about Central Asia few years ago.
Everyone who knew beforehand what was gong 10
happen and played his stock exchange cards accord
ingly reaped golden harvest. The ignorance OF
the French bourgeoise OF all things outside Of
France is proverbiaL 1t has never 80 far as
know been more ridicuiousy shown than IN the
Ghomacesr they are lavishlng on Katkoh's men,
CRY. ,
Prince Krapotkin reminds the French Reronli'
cans that there wa, never movement in Russia in
favor of what was honest just, humane or toward
the light that did not find truculent enemy IN the
Gazette de Mosooc and it's editor. His coarse
to cellular prisons aud to the gallows- lie com
b;ped with Tolstoi to impose the high schools of
Rn,sia a programme intended to cramp and abase
the minds of the youth s educated there To pre-
mare generations of slaves he devised scholastic
machine for stunning humaD sonls and undertook
himself in The lycenm which be founded 10 test the
cramping and consolidating power OF TINS ins'ru-
ment of despotism.' Prince krapotkn might
have added that when Turguenef and all liberal
ht,f,t IN
they had greater and higher interest in prevent
ing the destruction Of Republican France by Ger
man military empire, Katko1 was urging the Car
10 give Bismarck carte blanche in the west II ne
would let Russia 90 as shc pleased in Eastern Eu-
rope.
The ter lay at'the meeting Of the Paris depart
mental press VI. Lockroy, who has called for tho
purpose of sending wreath for Katkoh's tomb, re-
ceived famous doache of ICED water. He had inst
read Floquets letter in which as an old Journalist
ths.President of the Chamber begged to join IN the
purchase of the wreath, and made highfown
speech, when Russian exile arose and asked leave
TO speak. He belonged he said, by adoption to the
Paris and provincial press. lie was an enemy o.
Kstkof when heswas living and he would Withhold
praise from him when dead because his career was
An oaious pursuit OF wealth, and malefcent in its
consequences to Russia. But he world not abuse
aman for whom the grave had opened, aud would
In a
would do would be TO read extracts from .Katkofs
articles not written when he was young but within
tn, last five years The Russian then took out OF
his pocket collection of newspaper and other cut
.iogs aud said that he would be happy to submit
them 10 inry of interpreters were his OVID merits
as a translator called into question He began by
reading attacks on Victor Hugo as trueulent
daresay as those Turguenef which in 1850
caused that ilustrious writer to fail seriously Ill
cnI PA0r M. IOCKr0g.
who Is a nervous man and easily gets upset, was
thrown all in a htap." Not knowing what to say
Le for some time said nothing. The assembly bali
enjoyed the plight in which he was put AT last
number of noisy, pushing Journalists who we've ma
npuvring to get themselves sent as delegates to
the funeral at Moscow cried I" Asset! Assez P- and
when the Russian got to the attacks on France
publisbed W It'll n eleven months the room.was made
too hot for him. NJ. Lockroy aimed not at delight
ing tho names of Katkof but at bringing Russia to
favor next fall when the parliamentary recess Is
over, a Floquet- Lockroy Ministry. Floquet cannot
in terms Apologies to Alexander Ill for having
apostrophised Alexander IL with Vive la Pologne.
Monsieur But by sharing ia subscription to
buv wreath for tho Pan-Sav apostle who was the
ruthless foe of Poland the Speaker of the Chamber
imagined he would soften the Cars luminosity to-
ward himself
NJ Katkof studied under che same professors as
Turgueneh in German University. He also
started AZ . liberal" Of Western type. But SEE
ing that he might hope to gain ore butter for his
bread by reaction when the Court wind was in its
favor he became slashing reactionist Bismarck
while pursuing mis- blood and iron policy, was his
bean IDEAL lio gloated over the violent severance
Of Alsace- Lorraine from France and exhored Russ
ians to rejoice tbsrcat because it justified the crush
ing out by them of patoual life In Poland. seri'
dom he tried to raise from the dead and In more
aggravated torn, inasnuch as he was for destroy
ing that curious village community the mir. which
Grea,ly stands in the way of uusurers and IS